Shauna-Maria Andolina was born and raised in Centre County, Pennsylvania. She hopes to someday visit Italy where her grandparents immigrated from including Villarosa, Perosa, Cosenza, and Casale. If you’re coming over for an Italian dinner, she says, bring the Tylenol because everyone talks at the same time and it’s loud! And be ready to share your plate. Shauna-Maria earned her MFA in creative writing from Arcadia University in 2015 and is currently a professor in south Florida.